On the Fox Valley Tech avionics tech bench, Melissa Raddatz checks a component in a remote- mounted VOR receiver.
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Steve Sato, Melissa and her husband-to-be Austin Raddatz
checked out the B- 17’s avionics during its annual inspection.
“Not that you work on a B- 17 every day, but it was neat and
a more realistic situation to apply what we’d learned,” she
says. With its ever changing technology and challenges, “I
like avionics more than I do A&P stuff, depending on what
it is,” she says. It’s sometimes hard to wrap her head around
how quickly avionics technology is changing, growing in ca-
pability, but there is a comforting order to it. If one knows
what the components do and can read a schematic, “it all
makes sense.” For similar reasons, Raddatz fell in love with
composites with her first lay-up. “That stuff is amazing,” she
says, adding that she’s looked into the weeklong composite
course at Cirrus Design, where her mom was an inspector
for awhile, but it doesn’t work with her current schedule.
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